Feeling Burned Out Leading Your Nonprofit?

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As a nonprofit or NGO leader, you're constantly navigating

Overwhelm, burnout, and blurred boundaries between work and life

Pressure from political and economic uncertainty

Feeling isolated and misunderstood by your team

You’re trying to lead with heart—but at what cost?

It doesn't have to be this way.

Step Into the Leader You're Meant to Be

with The Balanced Leader Coaching Program

This one-on-one coaching experience is designed for nonprofit and NGO leaders who want to lead with clarity, ease, and impact—without sacrificing their well-being.

Through proven practices and personalized guidance, you’ll learn how to

  • Tap into your inner wisdom so you’re not reacting to stress but leading from presence

  • Reconnect with your purpose and bring joy back to your daily work

  • Lead from your strengths—not burnout

  • Let go of the inner blocks that keep you stuck

  • Build sustainable habits that support balance, resilience, and a fulfilling career

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What You’ll Walk Away With

A clear, inspiring vision for your leadership and life

Tools to manage your mindset and emotional state—even in high-pressure situations

The ability to lead with confidence, alignment, and authenticity

Daily practices that build inner resilience and restore your sense of possibility

No more powering through. Start leading with ease and energy again.

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Choose the Program That Fits Your Pace

Each program includes personalized 90-minute coaching sessions, detailed follow-ups, text/email support between sessions, and emergency support for critical moments.

3-Month Track

  • Foundational support to reset and recharge

  • 6 sessions

  • Mindset shifts + core practices

6-Month Track

  • Deep transformation and behavior change

  • 12 sessions

  • Habits + inner work for sustained balance

12-Month Track

  • Full integration and long-term leadership growth

  • 24 sessions

  • Vision, embodiment, and expansion

Need a custom structure? Let’s build a plan that works for you.

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Meet Your Coach: Alex Poeter

With 30+ years in nonprofit leadership and 10+ years as a coach, I know the terrain.
From founding organizations to leading campaigns, I’ve seen what burnout can do—and I’ve helped dozens of leaders break the cycle.

I believe leadership doesn’t have to come at the cost of your health.
You can do meaningful work and live a balanced, energized life.

And I’ll help you get there—one step, one insight, one powerful habit at a time.

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Hear From Leaders Like You

  • “Alex is smart, committed, supportive and has decades of leadership experience. When I am working with him on a project, his contributions make that project better. He has helped me grow both personally and professionally. I can’t imagine a better person to help organizations and individuals build on their strengths.”

    – Tara Mack, Executive Director, Education for Liberation Network

  • “Working with Alex Poeter has proven to be invaluable to our staff’s ability to move forward in a positive way with mentoring and coaching young people, creating a healthy environment in which our staff and students can thrive, as well as creating an easy to use outcome-based evaluation system and infrastructure for our organization.”

    – Melinda Wiggins, Executive Director, Student Action with Farmworkers

  • “Alex Poeter was one of the wisest and most strategic not for profit leaders in Chicago for over twenty years. He was a leader in Chicago’s community organizing community, and he built a strong organization with numerous high quality programs and services for both youth and adults. Alex has a leadership style that is centered on focused listening and clear analysis, and he is skilled at collaborating with diverse groups of individuals and organizations. Alex is rooted in social justice values and empathetic of the many challenges not for profits and their leaders face. He is also a very creative problem solver who anticipates trends and understands how to marry big ideas to clear action plans.”

    – Brian Brady, Executive Director, Mikva Challenge

  • “Having worked with Alex for years, I remain steadily impressed with his abilities to perceive and articulate short and long-term needs in a deeply caring manner. If you are looking for a loud superstar, keep looking. If you are looking for a caring and thoroughly competent coach to help you break out of what’s holding you or your organization in harmful patterns, you’ve found him.”

    – Leigh Patel, PhD, Writer, Sociologist, Educator

  • “I have had the pleasure to partner with Alex on inter-generational, social justice work with the Chicago Freedom School for 5 years. Alex is committed to collaborative and participatory community based work with multiple stakeholders. He is an excellent facilitator and organizer – with the ability to garner resources and support multiple voices in consensus building and decision making processes. Institutions, community groups and folks that are seeking a thoughtful, committed and inclusive consultant need look no further.”

    – Keisha Farmer-Smith, PhD, Director of Programs and Quality Assurance, Family Focus Inc.

  • “Alex is a truly transformational coach. In working with him you will have an unconditionally supportive mentor who, through deep compassion and wisdom, will help you channel the best version of yourself based on your own terms. Alex provides a nonjudgemental space for you to work through situations that you’re currently facing as well as beliefs and patterns that may be holding you back. In the detailed notes you receive after each session you will find amazing insights filled with guidance as well as thought-provoking questions and resources that leave room for continued self-exploration and growth. Working with Alex has enriched my daily life, relationships, and career in too many ways to name; I cannot recommend him highly enough.”

    — Will Weiss, Founder at More Human Internet, Chief Operating Officer at Dream Sports Africa

  • “I've gained so much from my sessions with Alex, particularly from his emphasis on finding a way to lean into my authentic self. This led me to a whole new way of seeing the world and my place in it. By listening and reflecting back what he heard from me, Alex supported me to identify my work values, my unique strengths, and how I can best use them to make an impact and create the experiences I want to have in life doing what I love.”

    – Joanna Welborn, Communications Arts Director, Student Action with Farmworkers

Why This Program Works

Because lasting change doesn’t come from more to-do lists.
It comes from deep inner alignment.

By uncovering and shifting the mental and emotional patterns that are keeping you stuck, you'll:

Stop reacting from fear and start leading with vision

Release outdated beliefs and step into your full potential

Build the confidence and energy to lead with intention—not exhaustion

The result?
You lead better. Your team thrives. Your mission grows.
And you feel like yourself again.

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Want Support for Your Whole Team?

Want Support for Your Whole Team?

Explore The Organizational Health Blueprint—a companion program that helps entire teams improve culture, clarity, and well-being.

Learn more here

This Isn’t Just About You

When you lead from balance and authenticity, it ripples outward.
Your staff, your board, your community—all benefit.

The first step? Prioritizing you.

You’re the most important investment your organization can make.

Take the first step now—book your free strategy session.

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